Google Chrome Launches
Today, Google released it’s own web browser called Google Chrome. Initially in beta like many of it’s offerings and starting with a Microsoft Windows only version with a promise of Mac and Linux versions coming soon. Chrome combines some best of breed open source components and some new components like Webkit (also used in the Mac browser, Safari) and the V8 JavaScript Engine which was written from scratch to offer increased performance. Chrome itself is also entirely open source which leads some to worry about the security ramifications of this new browser.
The last couple of days have been very active with speculation on what this means for the browser market and the ever-growing competition between Microsoft and Google. Many believe that Chrome is a direct threat to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer which currently has approximately 75 percent of the browser market.
More to come soon.